good riddance," said
she, and yet without conviction in her tone.

"I will say 'fair wind' readily," he answered, "but I cannot be
forgetting. I know she likes--she loves me still."

Miss Mary showed her pity in her face, but nothing at all had she to
say.

"You are not doubting it, are you?" he cried eagerly; and, still
unnoticed in the doorway, the Paymaster grimaced his contempt, but his
brother, touched by some influence inexplicable, put the poem in his
pocket and delayed the entry.

"Are you doubting?" again cried the lad, determined on his answer but
dreading a denial.

"It is not your bowl-money the bairns are gathering at the Cross," said
Miss Mary simply.

"True," he acknowledged; "but she went because she must. She loves me
still, I'm telling you; she has my heather at her heart!"

Miss Mary understood. She looked at her dreamer and stifled a sigh. Then
she saw her brothers in the doorway, silent, and her hand went down and
met his and fondled it for his assurance as on the day he first stood,
the frightened stranger, on that floor, and she had sheltered his
shyness in the folds of her bombazine gown.

THE END

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